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Internet Dismantling the State Church In Finland
An anonymous reader writes "A Finnish secular web site that facilitates electronic resignation from the Finnish state church gained wide attention in the media this week. A gay rights TV panel discussion was followed by thousands resigning from the church. On Wednesday, 2633 people resigned through the web site, which is more than all the resignations in July. The Internet is secularizing the Finnish with increasing speed; over 90% of resignations in Finland go through the site administered and marketed by hobbyists driving Finland towards a secular, non-religious state."
Technically, yes, but it's hard to find a group that tops Christianity in (A) influence, (B) sheer amount of counter-factual woowoo, _and_ (C) hypocrisy.
Heck, even finding a match in two out of three is hard. Even some of the most pencils-up-the-nose underpants-on-head retarded conspiracy-theory groups tend to fail point A majorly (each particular CT has a rather limited fan base), and they tend to stick to one or two idiocies so they don't come even close to Christianity in regards to point B.
A polar bear is a cartesian bear after a coordinate transform.
There are two concepts in Christianity that address these issues - Faith and Grace.
Some critics have defined faith as "believing in what you know isn't true." But the essence of faith (in general) is that you'r supposed to subjegate your own ego/reason and trust another. Some people will call this Doublethink, but Faith means not rushing to a judgement based on a usenet posting constructed by a simple Human - God has a bigger plan.
Grace is another concept by which you get to an enlightened state even though you're incapable of it - you get it via God's grace.
All one needs to do is look at the millions and millions of people killed by hard-core Atheists (Soviet Union, Khemer Rouge, French Revolution) to know that Christians don't have a monopoly on whatever the bad thing is that people have. The philosophy behind the God-concept is much richer and more subtle.
What has the Catholic church got to do with it?
It's simply an opportunity for the GP to take a jab at the Catholic church, which, as you point out, is irrelevant in this context.
Thus making the GP Offtopic at best, Flamebait at worst.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
A good many people seem to beg the question in this regard-- Christians say yes, while others look at us, see that we think homosexuality is wrong, and claim that because that CANT be right, we must be wrong and therefore the Bible must be wrong. If thats not begging the question (as well as circular reasoning, and several other fallacies), I dont know what is.